My friend “M” says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can’t smile, because your lips have rotted off. It’s funny because back when I was alive, I was always forgetting other people’s names. Mine might have started with an “R,” but that’s all I have now. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries. I’m sorry I can’t properly introduce myself, but I don’t have a name anymore. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can’t imagine, and their hopeless world won’t change without a fight. He doesn’t want to eat this girl-although she looks delicious-he wants to protect her. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.įirst as his captive, then his reluctant house guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R’s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. “R” is having a no-life crisis-he is a zombie. In Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion’s New York Times bestselling novel that inspired a major film, a zombie returns to humanity through an unlikely encounter with love. “Has there been a more sympathetic monster since Frankenstein’s?” - Financial Times “A strange and unexpected treat…elegantly written, touching, and fun.” -Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife “A mesmerizing evolution of a classic contemporary myth.” -Simon Pegg “Gruesome yet poetic…highly original.” - The Seattle Times NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

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